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We have been invited to show our exuberant dance, I made this for you at Dance Place in Washington D.C., June 15th & 16th. This includes a week long residency where we will set the work on a talented local cast. Since it is a co-production, we are responsible for costs associated with producing the show. Expenses include lighting design, technical staff, promotional materials, travel, housing, food, costumes, props, and possibly kittens.

I made this for you
is a raucous, playful, yet earnest dance about audience engagement and
community building. The dance was conceived of by Gabrielle Revlock for
The A.W.A.R.D. Show! and was co-choreographed by Nicole Bindler and
Gabrielle Revlock. The A.W.A.R.D. Show! is a national dance competition
with audience votes determining the winner of a $10,000 cash prize.
Through I made this for you we challenged notions of competition and conventional forms of beauty by using biting wit and playful commentary. Our
choice to critique from within was a riskier option than boycotting or
writing letters to the producers. We felt trepidation about the
possibility of being disqualified but the risk proved worthwhile. (We actually were voted to the finals!)

In the process of making this large group work we created a community
of artists that would not have existed otherwise. We invited over 20
movement artists to participate. We asked them to improvise short solos
based on their various expertise-- in this way they were all
collaborators in the work. They felt a sense of ownership and agency in a
context that had been disempowering and alienating.

I made this for you is
a dance that breaks barriers. Limited to 15 minutes for the AWARD Show!
we challenged this time constraint by allowing the piece to spill over
into the Q & A where Gabrielle answered questions in an opulent
evening gown, carrying a shedding cat. No longer limited by time, the
current version of I made this for you continues with no set end point. The curtain call bleeds into a dance
party where the audience is invited to join the performers onstage. The
DJ will spin as long as people remain in the space. I made this for you deepens the intimacy between performer and audience and allows for everyone to see and be seen.

Gabrielle Revlock, director of Mano/Damno Projects, seeks to blur the line between living and performing to create works that spark curiosity. Inspired by any and everything from interpersonal dynamics to survival manuals to biblical stories, Revlock infuses each project with her characteristic wit and structural ingenuity. Imaginative and sincere, the works invite the viewer in and are intended to evoke emotional reaction and stimulate intellectual exploration. Speckled with humor and surprise, they also entertain. Gabrielle is the recipient of a Rocky Award and her work has been presented by The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Joyce SoHo, Bowerbird, Philadelphia Dance Projects and the Korzo Theater (The Hague, Netherlands) among others. http://www.manodamno.com/